Re: Remmina can't connect to a "dormant" VNC account
On 2011-02-18, Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> Howdie, fellow Debianites!
>
> This post is about two stock Squeeze installs and establishing a remote
> desktop VNC connection between them. I'm using the stock Remmina client
> for connecting from a Squeeze laptop to a Squeeze desktop. However, I
> wanted to have a remote connection while letting any local user remain
> logged on locally on the server. As it is, I can only connect remotely
> when no user is at the remote machine, i.e. I can only connect to the
> foreground account on the remote machine. Otherwise, all I get on the
> client is a black screen. The tab in Remmina says I'm logged onto
> guest@remoteserver, but the Remmina window just stays black. Is this
> the intended mode of operation? Or, in other words: can I connect to a
> "background" remote session, leaving the foreground session/user
> unaffected? I don't want to have to kick local users off just in order
> to be able to connect remotely. What must I do to achieve that? It was
> my understanding that, with VNC, you could even have *several* users
> connected remotely at the same time? I can't seem to even have *one*...
>
> P.S. Yes, I *have* logged out and in again. Still no dice.
>
> TIA
You can run any number of VNC servers in the background using the
vncserver command (from the package vnc4server or tightvncserver). There
are several examples of its usage on the web. Here's one that popped up
in a web search:
http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TightVNC
--
Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland
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